Icon: 50 Years of the Ashburton Clock Tower

12 September – 29 November

Term 3 Week 9 - Term 4 Week 7

Session time: 60-90 minutes

Tūhura | Explore
This interactive exhibition celebrates the 50th birthday of our town clock tower, an icon of Whakatere Ashburton.

Ako | Learn
In this exhibition, students will learn about the clock’s former life inside the Ashburton Post Office building, the building’s demolition and long storage of the clock until it was given a new life inside today’s award-winning clock tower, built to celebrate 100 years of local government. We will also learn about the mechanisms of analogue chiming clocks, and the historical role of town clocks in civic life.

Waihanga | Create
Continue our exploration of technology by drawing on Ross Ellen’s prints to make our own gel-plate prints of the clock tower.